Weather in Mérida in February

A good month. February works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 31.4 °C, lows 19.7 °C, and rain falls on 5 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

February ranks 4 of 12 in Mérida: past the worst of the year but short of January, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 5 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 31.4 °C days and 19.7 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 20 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 37.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 11.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 47 mm — roughly 162% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. February rainfall has ranged from 1 mm to 124 mm across the twenty years measured — a 123 mm spread around an average of 29 mm. The average is real but almost no individual February looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 0.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 65%.

How February sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 2.2 °C warmer than January, and March adds another 2.2 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in February

February sits at the dark end of Mérida's year — 11.4 hours of daylight against 13.4 at midsummer, gaining 0.5 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 24 °C in February — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. The sea peaks at 29.1 °C in August and bottoms out at 24 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

February in Mérida versus nearby

If Mérida is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Cancún is a better bet in February — 4.2 °C cooler, 3 days more rain. Key West is a better bet in February — 8.3 °C cooler, the same number of rain days.

So: February works, with January the better month by 8 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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